Tulinabo S. Mushingi

Tuli Mushingi
United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso
Incumbent
Assumed office September 17, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Thomas Dougherty
Personal details
Born	1957 (age 66–67) Congo-Kinshasa
Spouse(s)	Rebecca Mushingi
Children	1 daughter
Alma mater	Higher Pedagogical Institute Howard University Georgetown University

Tulinabo Salama Mushingi (born 1957) is the United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso, and previously served in the executive offices of Secretaries of State John F. Kerry and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Biography

Early career

Mushingi started his career with the US Peace Corps and served in Papua New Guinea, DR Congo, Niger, and the Central African Republic. He earned a Master's degree from Howard University and a PhD. from Georgetown University. He was also a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College for many years and taught at Howard University, before being hired as an instructor at the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI).

Foreign Service Career

After being accepted into the foreign service, Mushingi served a series of domestic and overseas assignments including Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Maputo, Mozambique; Lusaka, Zambia; Casablanca, Morocco; and tours in Washington D.C. in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research; the Bureau of International Organization Affairs and the Bureau of Human Resources.

From 2003 to 2006, he served as the management officer assigned to travel with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and from 2006 to 2009, Ambassador Mushingi worked as management counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania.

In 2009, he was promoted to Deputy Chief of Mission, and served as chargé d'affaires for the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 2011 to 2013, he served in the Executive Offices of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and later John F. Kerry.

References

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Thomas Dougherty	United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso 2013–present	Incumbent